Hi Gang,I have just been contacted by a friend trying to get his box playing going again, and he's been listening to JK's Shropshire Militia Hornpipe. He asked me if I have any dots or abc's and sadly I don't.I've tried an internet search and can't see it...…Has anyone out there able to help a lone box player in far off lands?yours very hopefullyQ

** Please note: I have amended the thread title to reflect the manuscript content.This thread has moved on and in the process of discovering the tune has managed to unearth a manuscript of 1,000 tunes along with a really fascinating story regarding the author. Several members involved in this thread have now undertaken notating the manuscript.There is a sister thread relating more to the actual manuscript and those working on it. If you wish to check out this sister thread, go to the ABC 'child' forum attached to this Tunes forum **best wishesQ.

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I think I'm starting to get most of the notes in roughly the right order...... sometimes!

The wonders of t'internet ! And only another thousand tunes in the manuscript...John Buttrey Ms for those interested.I shall look forward to adding this one to my local tune repertoire when my swollen finger (due to playing too many carols I reckon) recovers. And just when I've got French session this evening, dance practice tomorrow, carols on Thursday...

Well...!!I put the tune into abcexplorer for my friend who is really pleased for the tune and also impressed at the networking that is Melnet.

I've also looked at the manuscript. John Buttrey was a fascinating person, joining the 34th Regiment in 1797 serving in South Africa then India getting discharge and then emigrating to Canada with his manuscript. What I find wonderful is this manuscript of tunes and drawing was passed down the family until it was microfiched in the National Archives, Ottowa in 1972. Just lovely the family had it.Anyway.... There's a lot of tunes here, and a great story too.Take a read....Q

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I think I'm starting to get most of the notes in roughly the right order...... sometimes!

Oh, joy! What a fabulous resource!!! I'm going to transcribe a couple at random to see what I get(how I wish I could sight-read...).

I just had a quick look at the web site, and apart from the tunes themselves, one of the delights ofthis manuscript is the small drawings interspersed with many of the scores. The amount of work thatmust have been undertaken here is phenomenal (that is, the work undertaken by both the folks whocreated the original MS and drawings, and the team who are in the process of resurrecting thisfabulous collection...).

I only had time to scan through the ms after I unearthed it yesterday - just on the hunt for the tune in question. Luckily a review of the JK album including the tune mentioned John Buttrey as the source, and t'internet quickly put me on the track to Canada...where Buttrey ended up with his book of tunes.Fascinating story behind the tune book - and lots of hard work has been undertaken by the Canadian project enabling us to look at it . (I will definitely send my personal vote of thanks !)

So glad you found the Buttrey site. The whole purpose of the site is to letmusicians everywhere have access to the music, not just the dedicated fifers whopreviously had access to it, so yes, please make ABC files if you wish. (I amnot familiar with this type of file but I see that is what your members use.)

From your forum, it seems some of your members are as excited about the music assome of the Canadian fife and old time musicians were when they found the music.I was very fortunate to have considerable interest from Fort York in Toronto whowere able to help considerably with tracking down military records etc.